Reverse Pitch
Thursday, March 9th 12pm PST | 3pm EST
We’re flipping the script! A couple dozen folks from the entrepreneur support, investor, and banking community who prioritize sustainability and environmental solution businesses will be pitching to WCS founders, entrepreneurs, and innovators.
Those pitching will range from grantors and pre-seed investors to venture capitalist and angel investors to specialty banks.
See below for the list of who’s giving their elevator pitch.
WCS members who attend this event will get priority attention.
VertueLab
VertueLab is nonprofit fighting climate change by providing funding and holistic entrepreneurial support to climate tech startups. Through fifteen years of work, they have proven that our model can accelerate climate solutions that are key to reversing the climate crisis while creating shared economic prosperity.
Ideaship
Ideaship™ is a patent capital fund providing in-house patent department services, external patent counsel funding, and fundraising support for early stage startups. Cultivating innovations and charting the way, they finance patent filings and articulate patent value.
Energy Foundry
Energy Foundry invests venture capital in today’s most promising energy & cleantech innovators, and they work with the world’s leading companies to build and scale new ventures. Their approach merges venture capital with the perks of partnership, and includes an arsenal of essential tools and relationships to help bring great ideas to market.
Elemental Excelerator
Elemental Excelerator is on a mission to redesign the systems at the root of climate change. In 2009, the non-profit launched a new model for funding climate tech deployment. Breaking down barriers to innovation alongside entrepreneurs provides Elemental unique insight into the policy, market, and technology innovation needed to build systems to uplift people and communities around the world.
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)
LACI is creating an inclusive green economy for the people of Los Angeles by unlocking innovation by working with startups to accelerate the commercialization of clean technologies, transforming markets through partnerships with policymakers, innovators, and market leaders in transportation, energy and sustainable cities, and enhancing communities through workforce development, pilots, and other programs.
The Urban Future Lab (UFL)
The Urban Future Lab (UFL) is New York City’s hub for smart cities, smart grid and clean energy. Their space hosts several programs focused on educational, policy and market solutions to the issues of sustainability – the Carbon to Value Initiative, the Global Incubator Programme – USA Clean Growth, Clean Start – a diploma program through NYU School of Professional Studies, and the H2 Refuel Accelerator.
Powerhouse
Powerhouse is an innovation firm that works with leading global corporations and investors to help them find, partner with, invest in, and acquire the most innovative startups in clean energy, mobility, and climate.
Prime Impact Fund
Prime Impact Fund invests in transformative technology companies with the potential for gigaton-scale climate impact.
FarmHand Ventures
FarmHand Ventures is a Venture Capital and Private Equity agency.
The Climate Pledge Fund
The Climate Pledge Fund is a $2 billion venture investment program supporting the development of sustainable technologies and services that will enable Amazon to meet our net-zero carbon goal.
Registration coming soon
Ticket price
- $15 non-members
- FREE for members